Kannadiga or Kannadati dating

Kannada or Kanarese is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka.

Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas (Kannaḍigaru) and number roughly 38 million, is one of the 40 most spoken languages in the world. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka.

The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script.

It evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. Kannada has an unbroken literary history of over a thousand years.

Kannada is a Dravidian language that has been spoken for about 2500 years and has been highly influenced by Sanskrit vocabulary and literary style. There are around 20 dialects of Kannada that includes Hayaka, Kodava, Kunda etc.

Kannadiga or Kannadati is a reference to the group of people or community who natively speak the Kannada language.

Kannadigas are mostly located in the state of Karnataka in India, and in the adjacent states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra.